There is a line early in The Matrix that I have never been able to shake. Morpheus leans forward in a dark room, looks Neo dead in the eyes, and tells him why he hasn’t been sleeping: “What you know you can’t explain, but you feel it. You’ve felt it your entire life — that […]
Survival is the most overrated achievement in startups. In February 1943, Dublin was a city doing its best to look away from the world. Ireland had declared itself neutral and called the world war “the Emergency,” as though it were a power cut that someone would soon fix. Tea was rationed. Coal was scarce, so […]
